Dalli lies again. European Commission: “Dalli received clearance as a FORMER EU Commissioner.”
John Dalli said, on his sidekick Saviour Balzan’s TVM show, that he is so very much still an EU Commissioner that he sought clearance from the European Commission for doing the work he is doing now for the government of Malta, and received that clearance.
A reporter from the Nationalist Party’s newspaper took the trouble of emailing the European Commission, something which Dalli the Liar and the rest of his lying colleagues apparently believe nobody will do.
The reporter, Kenneth Xuereb, asked these questions:
1. During a television programme on the National TV station in Malta, John Dalli claimed that he is still a European Commissioner and justified his claim because he is contesting his dismissal at the European Court of Justice. What is the Commission’s position viz-a-vis John Dalli. Is he still a European Commissioner pending proceedings? Or is he a former Commissioner?
2. This assertion from Mr Dalli was in the context of his current role as government consultant for the country’s main general hospital Mater Dei. He said that he is doing this work free of charge and he requested permission from the Commission to carry out this consultancy as he is still a Commissioner.
He also claimed that the Commission gave him the green light. Can you confirm that Mr Dalli wrote to the Commission to ask permission to carry out this consultancy and that he was given such permission? Are there any such requirements for FORMER Commissioners and is it in his capacity as a former European Commissioner that he was given the go-ahead?
He received the following answer:
Dear Mr Xuereb,
John Dalli resigned from his position as Commissioner on 16 October last year and has received clearance for his consultancy activities from the Commission in his capacity as former Commissioner (the obligation to seek prior authorisation applies 18 months from the moment Mr Dalli ceased to hold office).
Best regards,
Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen
Spokeswoman
European Commission
Of course, now the next question that should be asked is this:
What does the European Commission think of the Maltese government’s decision to engage as a high-ranking consultant the very man who was forced out of that Commission for corruption?
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Muscat the salesman is still out to neutralise opposition. He succeeded with the switchers, with the PN desenters when in oppossition, and is still at it while in Government trying to lure PN backbenchers. The recent temporary appointment of Kirsty Debono to the post of Speaker is one such attempt.
I have always insisted that John Dalli is corrupt and a compulsive liar. He lies to the point of stupidity.
Definition of stupid: Knowing the truth, seeing the truth, but still believing the lies.
They first knowingly invent the lies that they proceed to uphold as truths. A sinuous logic. Their public position at any one time is necessary to their perception of defence.
Without it all the sham of credibility would dissolve to the state of nothingness.
This sort of person escapes justice time and time again.
A career built on lies.
What kind of logic is this?
Dalli sought clearance from the European Commission for doing voluntary at Mater Dei because he feels he is still Commissioner but did not seek clearance to undertake voluntary work in the Bahamas when he actually was a Commissioner.
And the questions after that:
Isn’t anyone who claims in a public place to be an EU Commissioner when in fact he is not – and actually was one but resigned or was fired – committing a fraud and a serious breach of code of conduct of EU Commissioners, and bringing the EU Commission in disrepute?
And shouldn’t the media be asking the prime minister:
1. What he thinks about the claim made by his consultant that the consultant is an EU Commissioner?
2. After the failed due diligence on consultant Shiv Nair – where the PM’s due diligence failed to pick the fact that Shiv Nair was a permanently debarred individual by the World Bank – did the PM’s due diligence on consultant John Dalli not reveal that Mr. Dalli was still an EU Commissioner and therefore couldn’t act as consultant of the PM?
Lies Damned Lies and Statistics, of rising unemployment, is a classic textbook for those who study statistics. Neither Dalli nor Zeppi do share the authorship, nor the editing.
On Salvu’s God awful programme, Dalli actually almost blurted out ‘jiena ma rezenjajtx….’ but stopped himself just short of completing the final syllable.
EVEN HE realized that he really couldn’t stretch the lie that far.
The fact that the trails between Joseph Muscat and Shiv Nair, and from Shiv Nair backwards have failed to attract the interest of the rest of the media – with the exception of Daphne and the NP press – should also be stirring the general public to ask the question whether that media, specifically The Times of Malta within the Labour/ state bodies, has directly linked interests.
To think that Shiv Nair has now magically completely disappeared belies great naivety.
In Malta there is one zoom in on this China issue, but taking stock of all the international developments and statements especially in the past couple of months, one should reach a conclusion that these local developments are not happening in international isolation.
To be able to do this in the West, backers of an indisputed public calibre need to have been brought on board. These invisible but omnipresent arms of power have flexed their collective muscle: Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Newspeak on a global level. Creaseless.